Ordinary World: Education
Ordinary World: Education with stories and links on learning, education, teaching, tutoring, and much more from Scott Davies and Ordinary Times.
Category: Education
Are Finland’s Schools Really the Gold Standard?
It is a given that at some point during almost any discussion about school reform, a reference to Finland’s education system will arise. However, a closer look at Finland’s education system and reforms raises questions about the popular narrative of its education system.
I Took Two Courses on Coursera. Here’s What Happened.
Coursera is a great way to learn, but unreliable as a credential for someone’s learning.
Ordinary World: Education
Your Ordinary World for 19 Nov 2018 with Education links from Scott J. Davies covering everything from education, learning, school choice, social and emotional learning, higher ed enrollment, and more. Read, share, and discuss.
Ordinary World: Education
Your Ordiniary World for Tuesday, 13 Nov 2018, and Scott J. Davies brings us education themed links about, teaching, learning, studetns, and more.
The Unforgivable Sin of Student Loans
Student loan debt has surpassed auto loans and credit cards to become the second largest type of consumer debt in the country, behind home mortgages. Some predict that the effects of the student loan bubble popping will have similar effects as the housing market collapse of 2008.
Faux Diversity in Recruiting
Vikram offers free advice to a corporation that knowingly laundered money for terrorists on how they can better diversify their workforce
Lowering the Bar for Teachers?
Removing the requirement of teaching degree seems like a lowering of standards. Is the conversation a bit more complicated than that?
What About The Boys?
With all of the attention that we devote to girls and STEM, what about boys and reading?
North Carolina Teachers March on Raleigh
Following similar scenes in West Virginia and Oklahoma, Raleigh has been filled with thousands of North Carolina teachers marching for higher pay and school funding at the state capitol.
Public Education in the United States, Part I
One of these things is not like the other.
Okay, actually, almost none of these things are like the others.
National School Walkout Day, 19 years after Columbine
19 years after Columbine, not much has changed. As kids across the country leave class to protest school violence in National Walkout Day, let us reflect on how we got here.
Barbara Bush, Randa Jarrar, and the Outrage of Free Speech
Almost immediately, a fresh front was opened in the perpetual war between free speech and outrage.
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